It’s perfectly understandable that Ben Zobrist didn’t get much sleep in the wake of the Cubs’ 10-inning 8-7 win over the Indians that locked down the first World Series title for the Cubs in a century.

Then the former A’s second baseman, who was named Series MVP as the Chicago left fielder, burnished his credentials as an all-around good guy Thursday on almost no sleep.

After having tweeted at 6:24 a.m. that he didn’t “want to go to sleep yet,” a couple of hours later he was out side of his house holding his baby and talking with neighbors. Then he signed an autograph, then another. He wound up signing for what WGN-TV called “a few hours” after word got out.

“It wasn’t planned,” Zobrist told WGN-TV. “I just came outside hold the baby ad talking to neighbors. Next thing you know, people are asking for autographs.”

We’re guessing that not everybody in Zobrist’s position would have been so accommodating. But that does seem to be the kind of guy Chicago’s newest hero is.

John Hickey is a sports reporter for the Bay Area News Group who returned to the organization in 2013 to cover the A's, a team he'd covered previously from 1986-1999. In between he covered the Mariners in Seattle for 13 seasons.

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